You might want to fact-check that "moon god" claim. Allah simply means "God" in Arabic, and it's used by Christians and Jews in the Middle East, not just Muslims. You can even find it in the Arabic Bible, like in Genesis 1:1, where it says "Fī al-bida'y khalaqa Allāh as-samāwāti wa al-arḍ" - "In the beginning, Allah created the heavens and the earth."
TL;DR: Allah means "God" in Arabic, used by Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and is found in the Arabic Bible.
Yeah, I’ve seen this claim before as well, and I don’t agree or disagree with either, and am not equating “Allah” to either the Christian or the Hebrew Elohim. I don’t have an answer on what it is or what caused the Koran.
However, the name they gave him might be an Arabic corruption of the generic Hebrew noun for God, and that generic noun is used to refer to other gods (little g) in the Bible in source texts, so it’s possible that the words are similar enough that it could be a crude translation (but not referring to the same entity).
If it is a “moon god” though I believe it would be called an (other) “elohim”, in Hebrew.
To be clear, I am definitely not saying “the Koran is holy scripture!” It’s a corruption of such. I have a few posts about quirks like, while it does seem to cite the Bible on many issues, and I believe it deems the Bible to be authoritative, and considers Jesus a legitimate prophet, it then teaches not to read any of those source documents because they’ve been corrupted, and garbles the commands pretty significantly. Definitely do your own research and double check me on all this, it’s not a strong subject of mine, though I’ve looked into it.
You might want to fact-check that "moon god" claim. Allah simply means "God" in Arabic, and it's used by Christians and Jews in the Middle East, not just Muslims. You can even find it in the Arabic Bible, like in Genesis 1:1, where it says "Fī al-bida'y khalaqa Allāh as-samāwāti wa al-arḍ" - "In the beginning, Allah created the heavens and the earth."
TL;DR: Allah means "God" in Arabic, used by Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and is found in the Arabic Bible.
Depending on who you listen to. I guess.
Not agreeing or disagreeing with the claim, but it’s noticeable that Elohim/Aluahym (“God”) and “Allah” (-hym) are similar words.
Their book and main teachings definitely have a lot of corruptions of scripture though.
Now, “a god” would also definitely be able to masquerade as THE God.
Of course, Wikipedia is not always the authority. But here it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah_as_a_lunar_deity
Yeah, I’ve seen this claim before as well, and I don’t agree or disagree with either, and am not equating “Allah” to either the Christian or the Hebrew Elohim. I don’t have an answer on what it is or what caused the Koran.
However, the name they gave him might be an Arabic corruption of the generic Hebrew noun for God, and that generic noun is used to refer to other gods (little g) in the Bible in source texts, so it’s possible that the words are similar enough that it could be a crude translation (but not referring to the same entity).
If it is a “moon god” though I believe it would be called an (other) “elohim”, in Hebrew.
To be clear, I am definitely not saying “the Koran is holy scripture!” It’s a corruption of such. I have a few posts about quirks like, while it does seem to cite the Bible on many issues, and I believe it deems the Bible to be authoritative, and considers Jesus a legitimate prophet, it then teaches not to read any of those source documents because they’ve been corrupted, and garbles the commands pretty significantly. Definitely do your own research and double check me on all this, it’s not a strong subject of mine, though I’ve looked into it.
An Arabic-English dictionary would tell you. Don't have to "listen" to anyone in particular.